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Catamaran Corp (CTRX): Today's Featured Technology Winner

Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model.

Catamaran (
CTRX) pushed the Technology sector higher today making it today's featured technology winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.4%. By the end of trading, Catamaran rose 80 cents (1.6%) to $50.70 on light volume. Throughout the day, 809,593 shares of Catamaran exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.6 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $50.03-$50.85 after having opened the day at $50.17 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $49.90. Other companies within the Technology sector that increased today were:
Clearwire (
CLWR), up 70.8%,
Dataram Corporation (
DRAM), up 17.2%,
Sprint Nextel (
S), up 14.3%, and
DragonWave (
DRWI), up 11.4%.

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Catamaran Corporation provides pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services and healthcare information technology solutions to the healthcare benefits management industry in North America. Catamaran has a market cap of $10.21 billion and is part of the
computer software & services industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 60.7, above the average computer software & services industry P/E ratio of 60 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 76.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate Catamaran a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Catamaran as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, good cash flow from operations, impressive record of earnings per share growth and compelling growth in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.